Agent Tcl Agent Tcl is a transportable agent system written in Tcl. The agents migrate from machine to machine using the jump command. Execution resumes on the destination machine at the statement immediately after the jump (modifications to the Tcl core allow the capture of the complete internal state of an executing script). In addition to migration, Agent Tcl also supports: Message passing: Agents can send messages to each other. Direct connections: Agents can establish direct connections with each other for bulk data transfer. Agents can use Tk 4.0 to display graphical interfaces on their current machine. Creation of new agents and cloning of existing agents. Generic timeout and retry mechanisms. Rudimentary security. The next release of Agent Tcl (July 1997) will provide much better performance and sufficient security mechanisms to protect a machine from malicious agents. It will also allow agents to be written in Java as well as Tcl. More details on the next release can be found at the Web site below.

Current Version:   1.1 License Type:   ??

Home Site: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~agent/ Source Code Availability:   Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   No RedHat RPM Package:   No Other Packages:   No Targeted Platforms: known to compile on Linux/Intel, IBM RS/6000 AIX, SGI IRIX, DecStation Ultrix, Dec Alpha OSF/1, FreeBSD/Intel, SunOS and Solaris. The source code should be easily portable to any Unix platform that provides TCP/IP and Berkley sockets. Software/Hardware Requirements: None

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